Spade Coin

48-2-334

From: China

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Native Name Spade Coin
Object Number 48-2-334
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chinese
Provenience China
Period Xin Dynasty
Date Made Wang Mang
Section Asian
Materials Bronze
Description

Obv. 么布二百 Yao Bu Er Bai (Baby spade, Two Hundred). Rev. Plain. Read from top right to top left, then bottom right to bottom left. One of the Ten Spades (十布) made from 10-14 CE.

Credit Line Gift of Elise Biddle (Mrs. Harald) Paumgarten, 1948, 1948
Other Number L-2-345 - Old Loan Number

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